![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 8 A South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks biologist estimates that more than 3 million wounded ducks go “unretrieved” every year. Just 10 percent manage to escape, but “starvation is a likely fate” for them, according to one veterinarian. 7 Twenty percent of foxes who have been wounded by hunters are shot again. A study of 80 radio-collared white-tailed deer found that of the 22 deer who had been shot with “traditional archery equipment,” 11 were wounded but not recovered by hunters. Many animals endure prolonged, painful deaths when they are injured but not killed by hunters. ![]() 4 Almost 40 percent of hunters slaughter and maim millions of animals on public land every year, and by some estimates, poachers kill just as many animals illegally. population (13.7 million people) hunts, yet hunting is permitted in many wildlife refuges, national forests, and state parks and on other public lands. 1 Hunting has contributed to the extinction of animal species all over the world, including the Tasmanian tiger and the great auk. Although it was a crucial part of humans’ survival 100,000 years ago, hunting is now nothing more than a violent form of recreation that the vast majority of hunters do not need for subsistence. ![]()
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